Application Development

Adding Additional Features

A developer may want to provide additional features for their application, such as sending logs to an external endpoint.

Developers can write these features directly into an application’s container, or they can create a “sidecar” container that does some of this work.

One common example of a sidecar feature may be to include a FluentBit container in your pod that sends log data to an Elastic Search database. This can be used for customizable metrics monitoring, or system debugging.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1724821.Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.